Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] their [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 2 | Is it any wonder that I now plead with my right hon. and learned Friend to intervene on behalf of pupils and parents who wish to move their children over the border to Staffordshire because they are fed up with their own high-spending council and they want that council to take responsibility ? |
| 3 | Avatars , made out of their own perverse essence , would hook into the spirits of vulnerable psykers , into greedy , heedlessly ambitious mortals , and would offer those dupes a little power — playing them like living puppets on intangible strings — before twisting them into tools of evil and eventually consuming them . |
| 4 | Looking again at those dim shapes around the flame , they did appear to be rigs , vaguely made out in their own gassy glare . |
| 5 | They are far too wrapped up in their own small struggles to worry overmuch about what others are doing and why . |
| 6 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 7 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 8 | Pressed back over their own blue line , Wasps rallied around their minder , Frank Killen , and held out for another two minutes before Herckerrath added a second as three of the Wasps sat out penalties in the box . |
| 9 | Tanzanians were brought up with their own musical , dance and oral traditions but at school or college were taught the language , culture and even the history of the colonial power . |
| 10 | Moreover , other territories were taken up with their own internal problems . |
| 11 | The nations of Europe , increasingly taken up with their own military and economic problems , responded by increasingly withdrawing from any attempt to exact further concessions . |